Activating the Unemployed
A Comparative Appraisal of Work-Oriented Policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11101188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon Kvist (0000-0002-5560-6590, corresponding author), Neil Gilbert (0000-0003-4576-7312), Rebecca A Van Voorhis |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 84 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3089866 |
| OpenAlex | W1999610519 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare states. Social policies are increasingly designed to encourage economic independence. Policy makers have introduced a wide range of reforms linking disability, unemployment, and welfare programs cash benefits to work-oriented measures.Welfare policies are being framed by a new emphasis on recipients' obligations, emphasizing that the receipt of benefits creates a responsibility to take action towards becoming self-reliant. The objective is to minimize the duration of dependence or improve the well-being of family or community. Activating the Unemployed addresses this growing interest in work-oriented measures. This represents a shift in the dominant discourse on social welfare from focus on the citizen's rights to social benefits to emphasis on their responsibilities to work and lead an active life. In this volume, a distinguished array of international contributors provide cross-cultural perspectives to analyze recent diverse policy initiatives to activate the unemployed in nine countries-Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each provides a systematic account of the background, design, implementation, and results of employment-oriented measures. Collectively they permit comparison of organized responses to common problems in the areas of public assistance (welfare), unemployment, and disability, among others. Further chapters seek to broaden perspectives on policy options, the issues raised, and lessons learned in the course of activating the unemployed. This thorough and insightful account addresses significant contemporary issues and concerns about welfare, social security, and unemployment. It will aid policy makers, professionals, and scholars in assessing current trends in welfare in various countries throughout the world
Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms
How and why capitalisms differ
The Impact of Labour Market Reform Policies on Insiders' and Outsiders' Low-Wage Risk
Solidarity and Reciprocity in the Social Investment State
Unemployment Protection and Labour Market Reform in France and Great Britain in the 1990s
What Informational Basis for Assessing Job-Seekers
Enforcing Mobility
Restructuring the Mixed Economy of Welfare
Rosnąca rola warunkowości pomocy społecznej a dochód powszechny
Literacy mediation as a form of powerful literacies in community-based organisations working with young people in a situation of precarity
Three Shortcomings of the Social Investment Perspective
Beyond Activation Reforming European Unemployment Protection Systems in Post-Industrial Labour Markets
Outnumbered. Quantification and Reactivity Inside Street‐Level Organizations
Increasing Roles for Municipalities in Delivering Public Employment Services
Balancing work and welfare
What works for whom? An analysis of active labour market programmes in Norway
Dynamics of social assistance
The reform of the welfare services in Norway
"Activación y flexiguridad". ¿La europeización superficial del empleo
Gender, employment and social security in Norway
The European Employment Strategy and the Governing of French Employment Policies
Activation
Active labour market programmes in Norway
Social Citizenship and Workfare in the US and Western Europe
Political actors, public opinion and the extension of welfare coverage
The Institutional Origins of “Workfarist” Social Policy
The Politics of Social Policy Language
Activation in the A ustrian Social Assistance Scheme – Unproductive Pressure and Low Support
| Citations per year | 1.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |